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Thanks for the info... after a little more digging I found this: "All Business Class passengers can purchase daily access passes for the ClubAcela locations at Philadelphia - 30th Street Station and Boston - South Station for $20.00 per day. Speak with a uniformed employee at the station for...

Early access to the train? Avoiding the scrum in the line? Wanting to give a poor lost Redcap a break and some bread? A rare and wanted experience of feeling how the other half lives? What difference does it make what his motivation was?

Sit down. Possession is 9/10th of the law. ;)

Good Afternoon, My family and I will be traveling from Washington Union to 30th street via Acela BC in a couple of weeks (AGR member, with no status after burning my points last year before devaluation / no paid travel). We'll be mid-transit and have decent sized bags that we'd like to leave...

Been on the Crescent once in this type of situation. Went to sleep on 19 just after Charlottesville, and woke up the next morning (daylight)... in Danville. Slow orders due to flash flooding and a downed tree on the track ahead conspired to put us 8+ hours down by the time we reached NC. All...

Lucky Friend. ;)

This is the key. An airplane that is on schedule and 20 minutes from arrival, is likely going to arrive on time. A train that is on schedule and 20 minutes from arrival could suffer a dispatching whoopsie, broken airhose, mechanical, etc within SIGHT of the station, and spend hours waiting to...

Might the reason the sleeper is so much cheaper from Flagstaff, is the expectation that dinner is NOT included in the fare? (I.E. if the train is "on schedule", arriving Flagstaff passengers would have no expectation of receiving dinner due to the cutoff time)?

Time for train traffic problems in Secaucus Jct. ;)

Correction: The Senate still has a few Republican Senators that are sane adults and are bi-partisan since their party hasn't figured out yet how to gerrymander entire states, and they have to remain somewhat centrists if they want to keep their seats. YW.

Actually, the PRESIDENT is proposing cutting funding. So your correction can stand corrected.

No, don't cut THIS arm off, we need THIS arm. Cut THAT arm off!

Exactly, we just first have to get rid of these troublesome Long Distance Profit Suckers. Then there'll be soooo much less resistance to giving the remnant NEC and corridors to the 1%-er-du-jour, with the maintenance done at taxpayer expense (socialized expenses, privatized revenue).

Anyone who doesn't understand the threat from this administration (limiting this statement to long-distance passenger rail for topicality), just isn't paying attention. When everything is in the fire, you can only save so much before the rest of it burns.

They're bought. The money is spent.

It's not about penalties to the supplier or the payment, I'm talking about avoidable costs like salaries, taxes, etc., that they could all "wind down" and get off the books as soon as possible. Their income is set, with the penalties. The expenses are continuing to tick...

Given that you can't even believe something he comes out and bald-faced tells or SCREAMS at you (Believe me!), I find it amusing that people are still trying to put stock in something he "hints" at, or reads his tea leaves. As for his campaign statements being lies... color me surprised... :huh:

Aren't they actually losing even more every day longer it takes? I'd think the fact that they're already in the red would lead to "Do whatever it takes to shove them out the door and stop the bleeding".

Assuming that there's an Amtrak to ride, by then, of course. ;)

So, what you're saying is, that what he proposed ($0 for Amtrak Long Distance), isn't what he's proposing? We need to give him time to do a thorough analysis... AFTER he's made his recommendation? Partisan Politics Suck.